Herbie Hancock's ""Future 2 Future Live""

4-Dec-02

104-Minute Concert By Herbie Hancock With A Techno-Funk Band At The Knitting Factory In Los Angeles, 2002, Celebrates His Contemporary Edge From Headhunters To ""Rockit""Future 2 Future Live, featuring Herbie Hancock and an all-star funk band and running approximately 104 minutes, was recorded at the Knitting Factory in Los Angeles earlier this year. It is presented on DVD (only) in Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1 surround sound, incorporating the unique MX multi-angle remote option on nearly 30 minutes of material, as well as other interactive content including the full-length original ""Rockit"" promotional video clip from 1983. F2FL arrives two months after the Columbia/Legacy release of The Herbie Hancock Box (in stores Oct. 1st), the 4-CD career retrospective boxed set whose production was personally supervised by Hancock. While the strikingly post-modern transparent box encompasses every phase of Hancockís tenure as a leader from 1972 to 1988 ñ Mwandishi, headhunters, VSOP, and the techno-funk years - the video is all about 2002.Described in the liner notes written by San Francisco journalist David Goldberg as ""a marriage of sound, image and interactivity,"" F2FL finds Herbie Hancock (on piano and keyboards) in the company of a stellar group: Darrell Diaz on keyboards and vocals, Terri Lyne Carrington on drums and vocals, bassist Matthew Garrison, Wallace Roney on trumpet, and DJ Disk at the turntable. With heads, hands and feet firmly planted in the past, present and future, the band covers every base. Their new version of 1973's ""Chameleon,"" for example, actually includes keyboard sounds sampled from the original master tapes. Jumping ahead one decade, 1983's ""Rockit"" is reinvigorated by DJ Disk, who utilizes his ""repertoire of crabs, tears, orbits, and tweaks"" (writes Goldberg) to extend Grandmaster DXTís original pioneering scratches.The sold-out performance at the Knitting Factory was shot on 8 cameras, which facilitates the MX multi-angle function. At times during the performance, when a picture-in-picture window pops up at the bottom of the screen, the viewer can use the left and right arrow button on the DVD remote to select alternate camera angles. In addition to the original 1983 ""Rockit"" video clip, other interactive content includes an exclusive interview with Herbie Hancock; a selected discography with bonus audio samples; biographies of band members and solo highlights; and web links to the band site and other related sites. The tracklist comprises: ""Wisdom,"" ""Kebero,"" ""This Is DJ Disk,"" ""Dolphin Dance,"" ""Virtual Hornets,"" ""The Essence,"" ""Butterfly,"" ""Tony Williams,"" ""Rockit,"" and ""Chameleon.""

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